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"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Louis Brandeis

#newbrandeis #antitrust #democracy #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #wealth #wealthconcentration #politics #politicaltheory #autocracy #corporatism #corporatismisfascism #fascism #supremecourt #hipsterantitrust #ftc #regulation #regulatorycapture

In one of the most blatant pieces of malevolent corporate greed I've seen, I'm greeted by headlines today that around 2500 seafarers are still stranded in the Persian Gulf, simply because the shipping companies they work for don't want to spend any extra to fly them back to their homes.

My guess is that #BuuNygren found an investor in Herr Trump! "Oh, you'll invest in our casino-resort? We won't oppose uranium transport and whatever else you want to do."

From October, 2024: "#NavajoNation President #BuuNygren signed a business site lease agreement that now enables the Navajo-owned Horseshoe Bend Holdings, LLC, to seek investors to build a world-class resort on more than 421 acres overlooking Horseshoe Bend, Glen Canyon and the Colorado River 9.5 miles downstream of Lake Powell."

https://opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/navajo-president-buu-nygren-approves-lease-for-700-million-horseshoe-bend-development-called-model-for-navajo-tourism/
#CorporateColonialism #Corporatism #Colonialism

"What we need to do is convince NZers that there is an alternative approach to managing the economy to the one that we've had for the last 30 or 40 years."

#ChrisHipkins, 2024

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-on-making-policy--if-this-government-is-racist--bootcamps-and-more-e2rtson

This a good start. But I want to see every Labour spokesperson giving speeches describing exactly how their portfolio has been conceptualised since Rogernomics and Ruthenasia, how it's failed, and how their approach would be fundamentally different.

#podcasts #BigHairyNews #BHN #corporatism

Two articles that I think go together... #Chevron (and other #polluters) hate #MakePollutersPay initiatives, and threaten to charge MORE rather than CUT CEO's pay (now at over $25 mllion)! Um...

Chevron says Richmond ballot measure to tax refinery will cost #BayArea drivers

By Cornell Barnard
Friday, July 26, 2024

RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) -- "One of the Bay Area's largest refineries says it's against a tax measure on November's ballot, which could force it to pay more in taxes.

"Chevron is firing back at the City of Richmond, which greenlighted the measure. Chevron says if voters approve it, drivers across the Bay Area can expect to pay more at the pump.

"'This tax is the wrong approach,' said Tolly Graves, the director of Chevron's Richmond refinery [how much is Tolly making, eh?], making it clear that the company is against a refinery tax, dubbed the '#PollutersPay Initiative.'

"In November, voters will decide to tax one of the state's largest refineries $1 for each barrel of oil processed in city limits."

Read more:
https://abc7news.com/post/richmond-polluters-pay-initiative-chevron-say-ballot-measure/15096377/

Chevron CEO's pay rose 12% to $26.5 million in 2023, workers lag

By Sabrina Valle
April 10, 2024

"U.S. oil major Chevron's (CVX.N), opens new tab CEO #MichaelWirth was paid $26.5 million in 2023, a 12.2% boost from the prior year and above the median pay raise for employees, a securities filing showed on Wednesday.
The numbers show an increased gap between compensation for executives and Chevron's 45,511 workers."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-ceos-pay-rose-12-265-million-2023-2024-04-10/

#BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #Corporatocracy #Corporatism #ColonialCapitalism #Capitalism #BigOil

Unitary management:
"A good decision is no longer a decision legally well-supported, but a decision made within a reasonable time, which will not be appealed and whose application will incur fewer costs."

Jacques Faget in "L’acte de juger et ses biais" (2018) https://www.cairn.info/revue-deliberee-2018-3-page-27.htm @ethics

#efficiency #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #choosing #sentencing #judging #truth #stateViolence #sociology #mentalHealth #unitary #corporatism #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #responsibility

There is no judicial truth. Organisations cannot "do Justice". Let's discuss the biases of the judicial institutions.

! to be followed @sociology @ethics

#toBeFollowed #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #choice #choosing #sentencing #judging #systemicRacism #racialisation #racialization #patriarchy #fragility #truth #reputation #domination #stateViolence #sociology #mentalHealth #unitary #corporatism #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #responsibility

#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023

"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.

"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'

"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."

Background: Back to Fairy Creek

"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.

"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.

"Until now.

"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."

Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html

#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy